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- 3001 - O'CONNORS FIGHT
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- Translated into English and typed in by T.E.W. of AEON. Edited by PARASITE.
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- BACKGROUND
- It's 3001. It has not been possible to develope an indipendent Space-Travel,
- yet . Because of this, travel through space and live on other planets is only
- possible in a distance of 15 light-years (from our sun) .
- The imperium was reigned by an imperator, who kept up law and order for
- some time. But now, the imperator is dead and a war has started between the
- six lords of the universe, who'll become the new imperator .
- The six lords do nearly everything to expand themselves and to reign the
- wholeuniverse one day .
- One of them is John O'Connor. A master in strategy and a beliver in law and
- order. Will he reign the universe one day and will he cope with the other
- 5 cruel lords ?
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- WHAT TO DO
- The player takes the role of O'Connor and has stop all other lords and to
- take over their planets .
- After the titlescreen has disapeared, you have the possiblity to enter a
- code . By clicking on the upper numbers, you can change the startingpositions
- of the lords .
- Click left button again to enter the game .
- On the left side, all planets are shown (planets have the color of the lord who
- reigns the planet/Players color is white) .
- The whole gameplay is controlled by the menus on the right side of the
- screen.
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- THE MENUS ON THE MAIN SCREEN
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- TOP VIEW
- By this the view can be changed to 3D
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- INFO
- In the middle of the screen a comunicationcreen appears. In the upper
- side of the screen the date and the position of the own Spacecrafts is
- shown . Under this it's shown, how many systems produce spacecrafts
- or fuel for the player .
- It's shown, how many spacecrafts the player has . These can be stationed
- by the cursorkeys .
- If no ships are in the system, it's naturally easy for the other lords
- to take this one over . The more ships you have in a system, the wider you
- can expand . This is also shown . (Maximum is 11 lightyears)
- By clicking the right button you can leave the info-screen .
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- RAID
- By this other planets can be taken over . First you must choose one planet in
- the graphicscreen on the left (by clicking on it) . On the upper right
- side of the mainscreen, more details are shown (also, if it is possible for
- the player to reach the system) .
- After you haven chosen a planet click on RAID . Now you have the following
- possibilities :
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- 1) No one reigns the system (grey) , No problem to take it over, you just
- have to decide, if it shall produce ships or fuel .
- 2) The system belongs to another lord (colored) and has its own trups
- (circles) . Now a new screen appears, on which is shown, wo'll win (depends
- on troops of enemy/own troops)
- 3) The system belongs to another lord (colored) and the lord himself is in
- the system (arrow) . A fight will start as described in 2) . The loser of
- the fight has to leave all his own systems and the winner will reign
- them from now on . If a lord looses 2 times in such a fight, he's no longer
- in game .
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- Sometimes it's possible to land on the mainplanet . To land down on the
- base, some obstacles have to be avoided . This is controlled by the
- cursorkeys on the lower part of the screen . If you collide to often with
- certain obstacles, landing cannot be finished .
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- PUTSCH
- This is possible for three times . To win this, you have to fly through
- an asteroid-field . Steering is the same as landing-steering .
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- THE MENUS ON THE SYSTEM SCREEN
- This menus can be reached by clicking once more on the system .
- On the left side are some informations about the system on the right side
- those menus :
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- CHANGE STATUS
- By this you can change production on one of your planets from fuel to
- ships or vice versa . A landing on the planet is necessary .
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- TROOPS
- All troops of all six lords are shown .
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- NEW GAME
- End game and return to startposition .
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- AUTHORS
- Information about the authors of the game.
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- After one menu has been chosen the other 5 lords will start theri action .
- After they are finished, the number of spaceships and the amount of fuel
- will grow (if a lord has taken over some new planets) .
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- If you wanna quit the whole program click on the power LED on the lower
- left side of the screen .
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- PROGRAMCODE AND GRAPHICS : Ingo Boeker + Jan Dark
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